CHICAGO WHITE SOX outfielder Carl Everett plays in a ballpark that has seen two incidents of fans attacking uniformed field personnel over the past three years.

Yet when it comes to boorish behavior, Everett believes the Coliseum in Oakland is one of the worst places in the major leagues.

“There and Philly,” Everett told the Chicago Sun-Times. “They shouldn’t even have teams. They shouldn’t. Their fans are terrible. In Philly, they throw golf balls, bats, everything. Oakland, the same thing.

“They claim the fan is always right. I say bull.”

Everett has never won points for diplomacy, but at least he has some personal experience to draw upon. While playing for Texas last year at Oakland, he was hit in the head by a cell phone thrown from the stands.

Everett said he wasn’t surprised to see the ugly incident between fans and Rangers relief pitchers Monday night at the Coliseum, an altercation that peaked when Texas pitcher Frank Francisco hurled a chair into the stands, injuring fans.

“I was assaulted in the same ballpark, and they didn’t do nothing,” Everett said. “I got hit by a fan in the head with a cellphone. Is he in jail? They knew who did it. Ask them if he is in jail. Did he ever serve time?”

Everett reportedly pressed charges and said Tuesday that he would have returned to Oakland to testify if he was ever called. He said he is still waiting for a call back.

“Major League Baseball has always protected the fan,” Everett said. “We’re the product. They don’t really care about the product. The consumers is where you make the money. You can always get more product, I assume. We’re expendable.”

Many players complain of rough treatment in Oakland, and most any other park where fans are close to the bullpen.

But the White Sox don’t have a clean record, either. In April, 2003, a fan ran onto the field and assaulted umpire Laz Diaz. A year earlier, two fans tackled and kicked Royals base coach Tom Gamboa as he lay on the ground.

HE’S NOT SORRY: Even after MLB commissioner Bud Selig basically took him behind the shed, Arizona interim manager Al Pedrique isn’t apologizing for the way he pitched around Barry Bonds last week in Arizona.

“I’m sorry for the fans. I’m sorry for baseball,” said Pedrique, who didn’t want Bonds’ 700th home run to come at Bank One Ballpark. “That’s the way it is. … The way this year has gone for us, it would be the last thing that we need.”

Fans in Arizona thought otherwise. They came to see history and booed the home team when Pedrique pitched around Bonds. The manager even walked Bonds with the Giants ahead 5-0 and the bases empty in the seventh inning.

Selig said he was worried about how Pedrique’s actions would affect the “integrity of the sport.”

That phrase is usually reserved for Pete Rose.

“In any game, you have to let the manager manage,” Selig told traveling Giants beat writers in Milwaukee last week. “But when you make a comment that, no matter what the situation, you’re going to do something, then I have to worry about the integrity of the sport.”

Pedrique continued to defend his actions.

“We didn’t do anything wrong,” he said.

DON’T CROSS OZZIE: It’s not a good idea to throw stones at White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen. The rookie manager and former major leaguer took exception to comments by Texas manager Buck Showalter, responding with some personal missiles of his own.

The feud stemmed from an incident last week when Rangers minor league coach John Wetteland went to coach first base. Texas was missing a base coach because Steve Smith was serving a one-game suspension for arguing with umpires.

Guillen asked the umpiring crew if Wetteland was allowed to be on the field. Once he was assured it was within the rules, Guillen returned to the dugout and forgot about it. Showalter apparently didn’t.

“I guess he didn’t know you could carry seven coaches in September or an extra coach in September,” said Showalter, who is known to be a stickler for the rules.

Guillen responded as only he can:

“Even after the game, I forgot about it. Now all a sudden they come up with his comments, and I think it’s unprofessional. But when the ‘best manager’ in the history of baseball talks about you, that means you’re on somebody’s mind. And when you’re beating the crap out of the best manager in baseball, and we beat the (bleep) out of them, it makes me feel a lot better.

“To me, I think (Atlanta skipper) Bobby Cox was the best,” Guillen continued. “To compete against the guy (Showalter) that invented baseball, and beat him, that’s something you should feel good about as a rookie manager.”

Guillen wasn’t done.

“He told somebody he didn’t like me because I have too much fun in baseball. I have fun in baseball because I was good playing this game. And I made a lot of money playing this game … something he never did. And I have a championship ring on my finger.”

Finally, “I was a better player than him, I’ve got more money than him, and I’m better looking than him.”

NEIFI’S WRATH: If you’re a Giants fan, you probably saw this coming: Neifi Perez, who was released by San Francisco on Aug. 17, had hit safely in his first seven games with an at-bat as a Cub. He took a .480 batting average (12-for-25) with two homers and four RBIs into a weekend series against the Reds and was starting at shortstop after Nomar Garciaparra went down with a groin injury.

“Everybody knows I’m not a home-run hitter,” Perez said.

Except in September. While playing for Colorado, Perez hit a home run off Robb Nen at Coors Field that knocked the Giants into a one-game playoff for the wild card, which they lost to the Cubs.

ONE-HOPPERS: Heading into the weekend, Cincinnati’s Adam Dunn was on pace to finish with 191 strikeouts, which would break the major league record of 189 that Bobby Bonds set with the Giants in 1970. The Reds don’t plan to bench Dunn over the final week as the Brewers did when Jose Hernandez was nearly assured of breaking the record in 2002. … When Derrek Lee homered Wednesday, he joined Moises Alou, Sammy Sosa and Aramis Ramirez in the Cubs’ 30-homer club. The last NL team to have four 30-homer players was the 1999 Rockies. … Astros right-hander Wade Miller has abandoned thoughts of returning this year because of a frayed right rotator cuff. …

Larry Bowa insists he plans to return to manage the Phillies next year, but rumors point him toward Shea Stadium, where he would serve as a third-base coach once the Mets pry Lou Piniella away from Tampa Bay.

… Maybe the Orioles should replace their trainer with a shaman. Left-hander Adam Loewen, who received a $4 million bonus as their No.1 pick in the 2002 draft, has a partially torn labrum in his left shoulder. Outfielder Val Majewski, their top position prospect, also has a partially torn labrum. … Marlins pitcher Carl Pavano left four tickets at will-call for Steve Bartman, the headphone-wearing Cubs fan whose foul-ball foible helped to spoil the Cubs’ World Series party last October. The tickets went unclaimed. “I put those there as a joke,” Pavano said. “I was hoping he’d use them.”

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